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EverQuest Next Landmark Alpha |OT| Settle in, Trailblazin' is afoot.
- Thread starter Ashodin
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Yeah. I was wondering why they didn't have it in game yet, considering they played it at the event last Friday. I saved the song from the event as an mp3 if anyone wants it.
MHWilliams
Member
Hurm. Crafting is straight up borked for me at the moment. Hitting the button does nothing. Guess I'll get back to testing tomorrow.
ChosenPredator
Banned
Need to get back into the game i got demotivated when I kept losing my stuff everytime i log on but it seems things are better now?
Yeah the days of voxel wipes seem to have passed.
CitizenVectron
Member
Though apparently now if your claim is on a high mountain you can't get there unless you have a grappling hook.
if you're asking if it has combat, it doesn't yet. The game is considered around 60% complete by the devs. No water, combat, no tiers underground yet (all of the resources are on the surface currently, that will change when the tiers are added), game modes coming, etc. A lot of stuff will be added by closed beta, which is supposed to start no later than March 31st.
Sapphire is just a bitch to get, at least getting the burled wood you know you got it from trees. Sapphire you are lucky if the cobalt node has it attached and not rubicite or even nothing in some cases. I've mined around 9000 cobalt ore and have gotten Sapphire nodes attached to it 6 freaking times....
I still just have a shed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uHFjUZ7jkM
Really,just a shed here, nothing to see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uHFjUZ7jkM
Really,just a shed here, nothing to see
TetraGenesis
Member
Hahahaha, awesome. Is the music that faded in an event you can create for when someone passes a certain point or enters a certain range or something?
D
Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
So awesome. What server/area are you on? I wanna visit!
The music was 100% random,it's just the normal background music! I loved that coincidence too
@Zefah I am on Courage - Ledge (Tier 2) in the top left desert area
bigboss370
Member
Can you have more than one claim?
Not yet, but it will be added,yes. you can expand your claim .
bigboss370
Member
the possibilities are epic
remember that we will be able to put people into groups and give them permissions for claims. there could be GAF CLAIMS where we got miners and builders and we can put huge things together.
My suspicious looking bath house is coming along nicely. Absolutely 0 interior at this point, which I expect to be a maaaassive undertaking. I'd say the front outside is 90% done now, but I need to repaint certain wood once dark and red wood come out.
It's really hard to get pictures of this thing because I put it on top of a ridge.
It's really hard to get pictures of this thing because I put it on top of a ridge.
If this game could turn into Rust without guns, that would be cool.
Omeed talking about PVP a bit: http://youtu.be/RwTVaKA15fI?t=29m6s
Omeed talks about quite a bit, combat, next biomes, etc. worth a listen.
Omeed talks about quite a bit, combat, next biomes, etc. worth a listen.
There's still a lot left to be added to Landmark. Combat, PVP, NPCs, AI tools (creating quests, etc.) water, tiers in the earth, mounts, more in-depth crafting, etc.
Necromanti
Member
Maybe this will be the game that brings back the feelings I felt while playing A Tale in the Desert back in the day.
Just got my tax return.... should I build a rig so I can play this? I was wayyyyy into the original everquest in my teen years (ended my time as a lvl56 warrior around velious). These days, my daughter loves minecraft, so I'm forced to play it for her and I've found some flashes of entertainment in it. So, should I do it? If I get alpha for landmark, do I also get into the real everquest next alpha/beta?
holy fuck. I would go nuts.
Really hoping they don't go this way. I don't think they will from looking at the list of stuff they want to add. I really hope it doesn't go too much into the minecraft mode either. Which again I don't think they will from looking at the list stuff not added yet.
Right now the game is in super easy mode. When they add monsters, move materials to other sections, and add all the other stuff they want it's gonna take longer to harvest material. Well, unless you pay for it.
The game is cool so far but there are a few things that really diminish the game for me personally. I'll write all that up eventually and post on the Alpha forums.
terrisus
Member
Well, color me very surprised - it only took 3 days from us doing an electronic filing of our taxes, to us receiving our state tax return.
Still waiting on the federal return, but, the state return was the larger of the two anyway.
So, I purchased the Trailblazer Pack, and am currently installing it.
So excited!
Still waiting on the federal return, but, the state return was the larger of the two anyway.
So, I purchased the Trailblazer Pack, and am currently installing it.
So excited!
RadioactiveLobster
Member
WTF did they do to the third person camera? It's warping between normal and 1st person when mining randomly, especially underground.
terrisus
Member
Probably already mentioned, but reading through the "Coming Soon" section in the FAQ:
"Underground Biomes Underground is pretty much undeveloped right now. The caverns arent in and we havent separated the resources out into tiers of depth. Thats all coming soon and is in-progress."
Woo!
"Underground Biomes Underground is pretty much undeveloped right now. The caverns arent in and we havent separated the resources out into tiers of depth. Thats all coming soon and is in-progress."
Woo!
The islands are 2 miles across and 1 mile deep. Think about that. The vast majority of every island is underground.
Zalusithix
Member
Well, after a run of rather mediocre picks, my final one takes the cake!
Now to put this bad boy to use!
Now to put this bad boy to use!
terrisus
Member
I'm going to go crazy building underground tunnel systems in this.
terrisus
Member
Is anyone else getting a glitch where your character will start flickering up and down (kind of like you're jumping, but quicker and higher and just flicking back and forth without any animation) while trying to walk or run? Or is that just me?
Tried turning my settings to low, even though I know my computer can handle more than that, just in case that was any part of the issue, but it's still doing it.
Likewise, when I right-click my claim flag, on the map screen where I would move it around to try to place a claim, things move at a snails pace and I can't seem to move anything anywhere there either.
3rd Gen i7 Quad Core, 8GB RAM, geForce 650m 2GB
I probably should get registered for their Alpha forum.
Tried turning my settings to low, even though I know my computer can handle more than that, just in case that was any part of the issue, but it's still doing it.
Likewise, when I right-click my claim flag, on the map screen where I would move it around to try to place a claim, things move at a snails pace and I can't seem to move anything anywhere there either.
3rd Gen i7 Quad Core, 8GB RAM, geForce 650m 2GB
I probably should get registered for their Alpha forum.
MHWilliams
Member
The magic of getting your first blue pick, only to find out that its modifier is "Inferior".
Nah, happens to me all the time. I find using the grappling hook a few times will correct it.
Nah, happens to me all the time. I find using the grappling hook a few times will correct it.
terrisus
Member
Whereabouts do I find/get/craft/whatever a grappling hook?
Oh, and, I finally laid down a claim! And it's actually in a nice area too (grass, trees, etc.), as opposed to out in the desert at the edge of the map like I had been looking at first. Yay!
Zalusithix
Member
You make them at a forge, though I'm not sure if the stone forge can make the bronze one or not. That said, what you claimed happened to you tends to happen when the cogs are spinning at the bottom right of the screen in my experience. I think it's a processing thing, and nothing you can do will really speed it up. Just standing still will sort itself out eventually.
CitizenVectron
Member
This may sound silly, but what does the "size" modifier do on a pick? The speed is obviously how fast it strikes, is the size how large of an area you are mining with each strike?
Zalusithix
Member
Yep size is radius, and damage being how "deep" it goes.
Edit: Though damage decides how much of a chunk it takes out in one hit, reach is the ultimate limiter on how far away you can strike.
This usually happens because the server is trying to catch up to what you are doing. I think it has to do with internet speed. If you stop and let the area load for a few seconds, it goes away.
terrisus
Member
Well, I mean, I have a 45Mb connection, would have thought I would've been alright. Granted it is wireless, but the router is only a few feet away. But, I suppose stuff like that can fluctuate. And, of course, it is just an alpha.
The other thing that's happened a couple of times over the past half hour or so, is that it keeps overheating my computer - even with all the graphics settings on low. My laptop under regular use (like right now with just a web browser open) usually sits at around 45C. However, like 3 times over the past half hour while playing EQ, it's pushed it over 100C, which trips the shutdown. So, it will shut down, cool itself down, and restart. Will be at 45C again, but then after 10 minutes or so it will be back at 100C and shut down again. No idea what's going on with that.
Bleh. I think that's enough for tonight. I'll poke around at it more tomorrow, and probably check out their forums and such too.
No, I meant you are getting ahead of the server, and the server is trying to catch up to what you are doing in the world. It's a problem on their end. I could be wrong about it being an internet speed issue, but that's what I have read is the problem.
As far as your laptop getting too hot, the devs haven't really optimized the game much yet.
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
Just a warning (that should probably be added to the OP)
EQNL runs your CPU hot.
Like "benchmarking app" kinda hot, in fact I get peaks of 72 degrees C on two cores, about 2 degrees hotter than Prime95 reaches on my rig.
So if you're the type of person that benchmarks and overclocks to find your peak, and then allows some of that as typical benchmarking overkill and goes a bit further on your OC for typical gaming use, be warned.
EQNL runs your CPU hot.
Like "benchmarking app" kinda hot, in fact I get peaks of 72 degrees C on two cores, about 2 degrees hotter than Prime95 reaches on my rig.
So if you're the type of person that benchmarks and overclocks to find your peak, and then allows some of that as typical benchmarking overkill and goes a bit further on your OC for typical gaming use, be warned.